A treacherous paradise
Mankell, Henning, 1948-2015
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In 1904, Hanna Lundmark escapes the brutal poverty of rural Sweden for a job as a cook onboard a steamship headed for Australia. She finds love in the form of the ship's mate, whom she marries, but disaster strikes when her husband is struck down almost immediately by a fatal illness. Jumping ship at the African port of Lourenço Marques, Hanna decides to begin her life anew. Stumbling across what she believes to be a down-at-heel hotel, Hanna becomes embroiled in a sequence of events that lead to her inheriting the most successful brothel in town.
Main title:
A treacherous paradise / Henning Mankell ; translated from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson.
Author:
Mankell, Henning, 1948-, authorThompson, Laurie, 1938-, translator
Imprint:
Oxford : ISIS, 2015.
Collation:
1 volume (large print)
Notes:
Standard print edition of this translation originally published: London: Harvill Secker, 2013.
ISBN:
9780753192870 (pbk)075319287X
Dewey class:
839.7'38
Local class:
FICFLP
Language:
EnglishSwedish
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Subject:
Women, white -- Mozambique -- FictionBrothels -- Mozambique -- FictionSwedes -- Mozambique -- FictionProstitution -- Mozambique -- FictionInterpersonal relations -- FictionMaputo (Mozambique) -- FictionMaputo Bay (Mozambique) -- FictionMozambique -- FictionSuspense fictionLarge type booksThrillerFiction in TranslationThrillerLarge PrintFiction: Thriller
BRN:
1346059